acv - 31

acv@Job:31:1 @ I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?

acv@Job:31:2 @ For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

acv@Job:31:3 @ Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

acv@Job:31:4 @ Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?

acv@Job:31:5 @ If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit

acv@Job:31:6 @ (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

acv@Job:31:7 @ if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

acv@Job:31:8 @ then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

acv@Job:31:9 @ If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

acv@Job:31:10 @ then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.

acv@Job:31:11 @ For that is a heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

acv@Job:31:12 @ For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

acv@Job:31:13 @ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,

acv@Job:31:14 @ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?

acv@Job:31:15 @ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

acv@Job:31:16 @ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

acv@Job:31:17 @ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

acv@Job:31:18 @ (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);

acv@Job:31:19 @ if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

acv@Job:31:20 @ if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

acv@Job:31:21 @ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

acv@Job:31:22 @ then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

acv@Job:31:23 @ For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.

acv@Job:31:24 @ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, [Thou are] my confidence;

acv@Job:31:25 @ if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

acv@Job:31:26 @ if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

acv@Job:31:27 @ and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand

acv@Job:31:28 @ (this also is an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God that is above);

acv@Job:31:29 @ if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

acv@Job:31:30 @ (yea, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

acv@Job:31:31 @ if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food?

acv@Job:31:32 @ (the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

acv@Job:31:33 @ if like Adam I have covered my transgressions by hiding my iniquity in my bosom

acv@Job:31:34 @ because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door--

acv@Job:31:35 @ O that I had someone to hear me (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me), and [that I had] the indictment which my adversary has written!

acv@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder. I would bind it to me as a crown.

acv@Job:31:37 @ I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him as a prince.

acv@Job:31:38 @ If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together;

acv@Job:31:39 @ if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,

acv@Job:31:40 @ let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Job 31